The goals of their new organization and their new journal were, as the first issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago put it in December of 1945, twofold: “To explore, clarify and ...

Two years ago this month the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission was in process of formation ... issues and to the solution of the great problems which confront all of us. Scientists have a ...

CHICAGO — The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that it was moving the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock from 90 seconds to 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it has even come to ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Doomsday Clock, a concept designed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to represent humanity’s proximity to a global catastrophe, moved slightly closer to “midnight ...

Along with researching gravitational waves, Holz heads the Science and Security Board at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists responsible for setting the legendary “Doomsday Clock,” which ticks closer to ...

which means it's the closest that clock has ever been to midnight since they started,” Chuck said. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists uses the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic metaphor to ...

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even in the depths of space, there's no escape from politics. The $10 ...

The Pentagon has sped up production of its latest gravity bomb in the latest sign that mankind is headed into the scariest nuclear arms build up since the end of the Cold War.

a group of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bombs detonated over Japan established the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1945. In 1947, the organization ...

Holz heads the Science and Security Board at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists responsible for setting the legendary “Doomsday Clock,” which ticks closer to midnight as the risk of Armageddon ...

For several years, as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has shown, researchers worked on Gnomon and intended to test a prototype in Operation Redwing in 1956, which thankfully never took place.